Oron Museum

Oron Museum is a museum near Calabar, Nigeria. The museum was established in 1958 to accommodate eight hundred known ancestral figures (ekpu) of the Oron people which are believed to be among the oldest and finest surviving wood carvings in Africa.^[1] During the civil war, many of the wood carvings were looted and the museum was severely damaged. In 1975, the museum was reinaugurated and today houses the remains of the wooden sculptures and other ethnographic materials from across Nigeria. The museum also has displays of bunkers used during the civil war as well as a crafts village.

References

↑ Nigerian Embassy

Museums in Nigeria

Nigerian National Museum Benin City National Museum Oron Museum Jos Museum Esiẹ Museum Kaduna Museum Owo Museum Gidan Makama Museum Kano Kanta Museum Ulli Beier Museum Centre for Black and African Art and Civilization

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